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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Ecocentric Criterion and the Population Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.022849.24681@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <JMC.92Nov17025507@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov17.175327.5373@ke4zv.uucp> <JMC.92Nov17123157@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:28:49 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Nov17123157@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Why shouldn't it be easier for these people to adopt advanced technology
- >than it was for the countries that developed it in the first place?
-
- Technically it should be easier, but economically these countries don't
- have the wealth of the countries who developed the technologies. That
- is a strong impediment to implementation.
-
- >Haven't they already adopted some advanced technologies? They all
- >have motor vehicles, radios and telephones, for example.
-
- Not all by far, and few who do have access to these technologies can
- get full use of them due to poor infrastructure. Bad or non-existant
- roads hinder auto use. Poor network connectivity hinders telephone
- use. Some things are easier to implement than others. For example,
- radio communications and light aircraft are primary ways of communicating
- and travelling in many developing nations, and in some developed nations
- such as the Australian Outback. The reason is that these technologies
- require a less extensive infrastructure in place on the ground. Their
- use is limited to the more affluent, and to governments, for the most
- part, but full use can be made of them in an area with limited infra-
- structure.
-
- Gary
-